Synopsis

Through a subjective and emotional journey, this film conveys the paralysing power of fear: fear as a sickness that prevents you from taking a stand on your life, on the future of your children; which clouds your ability to dream and grow.

A morning on a quite normal day: Miriam is arrested at her workplace and is accused, without proof, of “people trafficking”. The violence she suffered and was exposed to during her imprisonment has left a profound gap in her life.

Adela works as a clown in a travelling circus. Ten years ago, her life was irreversibly transformed; every night during the show, she evokes her missing daughter, Monica.
Tempest is the parallel journey of two women. Mirror-like, it reflects the impact of the violence and impunity that afflict Mexico.

Through their voices, we are drawn into the heart of their feelings, steeped in loss and pain, but also love, dignity and resistance.

Der Tagesspiegel

“Tempestad is a most audacious film in its narrative strategy, according to
Standard documentary criteria. It also is in its views of many street- and
landscapes and nameless co- travellers a visually almost explosive film that
creates its Impact through the very things it does not show."

El Antepenúltimo Michoacano

IndieWire

Berlin Review: Astonishing, Beautiful Mexican Kidnapping Doc 'Tempestad'
"It is the way that Huezo, with quiet confidence despite this only being her
second feature-length documentary, weaves image, story and soundtrack
together, that makes 'Tempestad' such a rich and original piece of work. The subtlety
of her approach interlaces ideas, resonances and emotions in evershifting, eternally
edifying ways. And it ultimately promotes the film from human interest journalism to a
grand work of socio-political critique and a quietly radical remodeling of familiar
documentary formats."